need touch up paint for the drivers door (fer 300/6)

on my 308qv on the drivers side door by the lock on the edge where someone opened the door and hit either a wall or something to chip a little piece of the paint enough to make you mad,someone said to touch it up with finger nail polish,I would like to find just alittle bit of the right stuff,fer 300/6 Rosso Corsa,can you help without me buying a gal or pint?

 

I think I bought a "felt tip pen" of paint from a place called www.paintscratch.com


This should be yours

http://www.paintscratch.com/cgi-bin/makepaint2.cgi

 

Mike,

It will cost a few dollars but go to a paint jobber and buy a pint. Have them check the type of paint and they should be able to make a near perfect match. Most cost effective is a single stage urethane [same as base coat/clear coat w/out the clear step]. Red is expensive due to pigment. I would guess about 50-60 for a pint but you can keep it for future mishaps. Another is to just buy a base coat color match and use a clear touch up from an Autozone. Only problem will be the base tends to be more difficult to match to the car but such a small area should be OK. The color pens sound good but there is no guarantee it will match.

 

Matched when I used it and it is easy to apply on rock chips I wouldn't do a scratch with one

 

I found VW tornado red at autozone. Perfect match

 

It's not a bad option unless you want lots of extra.

 

Either go to an auto paint dealer or a good body shop that has a laser paint matching system. I did this a while back and the guy came out with a camera and took a picture of my red rear deck . He went inside and stuck it in the computer and it spit out the formula and he mixed me a touch up bottle full for $7. It was a perfect match.

 

i use touch up paint for my red 81 from a discount auto store - recent ford red is a pretty close match. jon s

 

+1 on Steve Kings post. My family owns a body shop and I painted cars for 12 years. Go to an automotive paint supplier and let them take a reading off the car ( or bring them in a piece of the car ) along with your paint code,model, and year and they can mix you a touch up bottle that comes with a little brush for around $12.00. If you don't have paint guns, thinners, sealers etc. a quart of paint will just be a waste of $$. And If you don't know what your doing when it comes to mixing and spraying paint, and the type of surface your trying to match or spray over, the chemicals can end up lifting the factory paint and leaving you with quite a mess.

 

these are all great advices,so I thought I'll show you the chip I'm talking about,its not big but its there,and the car was painted three years ago,I would put the exterior at a 9.5 out of 10 now with the chip,well lets just say it hurts
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Just use a touch-up brush, and then you'll want to use this stuff to get rid of the "blob" after touch up -- it works GREAT

www.LANGKA.com

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